Tobias Meinhart - Sonic River (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Rivers have always played an important role in the life of Tobias Meinhart. While at school it was the Danube that the saxophonist, who grew up in a small town near Regensburg, had to cross every day, today it is the East River in New York. Meinhart has been living there, in the world capital of jazz, for over 15 years now.

He has achieved something that only very few musicians from Germany have achieved: he is an integral part of the jazz scene in New York, regularly performs as a bandleader in the most important clubs and festival formats in the city such as the Blue Note, the Birdland, Smalls, Jazz at Lincoln Center or the Winter Jazzfest.

With "Sonic River" (album release: April 18, 2025), his tenth album under his own name, Meinhart underlines how confidently he knows how to navigate the floods and rapids of modern jazz. At the same time, however, the recording also proves to be a leap into the cold water. It is not only the first release on Meinhart's newly founded own label "Sonic River Records", but also marks a turning point for the saxophonist born in 1983 in terms of his musical self-image.

For the first time, he has the feeling that he doesn't have to prove anything, explains Meinhart, who can regularly be heard in his projects with stars such as trumpeter Ingrid Jensen or guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel.

"The album is about the spirit of jazz. I dare to express what is going on in me at this moment, “ says the New Yorker. And so on "Sonic River" you will witness how the musician, once called by the magazine Jazz thing as "one of the greatest German talents on the tenor saxophone", has become a master of top international level.

TRACKLIST

1. Tobias Meinhart - This Is Water (feat. Charles Altura, Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)
2. Tobias Meinhart - After the Rain (feat. Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)
3. Tobias Meinhart - Mr. Vertigo (feat. Charles Altura, Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)
4. Tobias Meinhart - Sonic River (feat. Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)
5. Tobias Meinhart - Fugue Y (feat. Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)
6. Tobias Meinhart - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (feat. Charles Altura, Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)
7. Tobias Meinhart - The Panther (feat. Sara Serpa, Charles Altura, Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)
8. Tobias Meinhart - Silencio (feat. Sara Serpa, Charles Altura, Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)
9. Tobias Meinhart - Pinball (feat. Charles Altura, Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)
10. Tobias Meinhart - Korean Chant (feat. Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)
11. Tobias Meinhart - Dark Horse (feat. Eden Ladin, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire)



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